Monitoring is evil. If a company can't trust their employees, then there is a larger problem. /soapbox

yeah well I think they are doing it to cut down on internet abuse, kazaa etc. There was a problem recently where one unit got a trojan from kazaa and it got around all over the network. Needless to say the bosses were angry, and the admin traced it back to a unit that was indeed running kazaa.

Ah, that explains it...
I would have to say folks running P2P on the companies network is a totally diferent thing than surfing the net for a few minutes each hour.

indeed, there is a larger problem...
 

monitoring is a necessary evil because some (perhaps only a few, perhaps many) people have no honesty or integrity or responsibility and can't be trusted and ruin it for those of us who do.

beware with fear and dread: M$ Colonoscope Integrity Monitor v1.0 beta :D

Punish many for the actions of a few?

throughout the ages, this is called "Democracy"

I'll stop, so the thread can stay out of the coat room. ;)

I look at it in this perspective. If I were an admin, and users were abusing their rights to company equipment which made my job way more hard than it should be, I would be frustrated. Then the admin has bosses yelling at him to keep the network up, when stuff like this happens. So in a perfect world we would not have firewalls, encrypted data, or monitoring software, but that is just not the case.

In certain instances, this is a necessity.